ExclusiveAIDS: In the Footsteps of a Major Scientific Scandal (2/2)

Alain E. Andrea 2024-12-05 14:35 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

AIDS Health France United States

At the end of the 20th century, AIDS, previously unknown, spread rapidly, plunging the world into an unprecedented public health crisis. Researchers worked diligently to uncover the causes of this mysterious disease. In May 1983, Luc Montagnier and his team at the Pasteur Institute in Paris published an article in Science announcing that they had ...

ExclusiveAIDS: In the Footsteps of a Major Scientific Scandal (1/2)

Alain E. Andrea 2024-12-02 18:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

AIDS Health France US

In the early 1980s, a previously unknown disease emerged, signaling an unprecedented upheaval in the history of global public health. It all began on June 5, 1981, with the publication in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of an article titled Pneumocystis Pneumonia—Los ...

Announcement – AIDS, the Untold Story...

This is Beirut 2024-12-01 13:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

United States AIDS France

On the occasion of World AIDS Day, This is Beirut takes you behind the scenes of one of the most groundbreaking scientific discoveries of the 20th century: the identification of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the infectious agent responsible for AIDS. For the first time, Professor Ara Hovanessian (then a research director at the CNRS in ...

Teenage girls, the first victims of HIV

This is Beirut 2024-11-29 21:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

United Nations

Seventy percent of young people aged 15 to 19 infected with HIV in 2023 were girls, a rate that reaches 90% in sub-Saharan Africa and could undermine recent progress in the fight against the disease, UNICEF said on Friday. While the number of children and adolescents infected with HIV has been declining globally over the past decade, adolescent ...

Apatosaurus Skeleton Sells for 6 Million Euros at French Auction

This is Beirut 2024-11-16 22:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

United States France Dinosaur Auction

A skeleton of a 22-meter-long dinosaur (70 feet) was sold for six million euros ($6.4 million) on Saturday, as reported by auction houses Collin du Bocage and Barbarossa. An anonymous collector purchased the vegetarian apatosaurus, which was excavated in the United States, for 4.7 million euros, bringing the total to six million euros after fees. ...

ExplainerDiabetes, a disease with a bitter taste

Alain E. Andrea 2024-11-15 16:21 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Health Diabetes WHO

Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disorder characterized by abnormally elevated blood glucose levels. Often asymptomatic in its early stages, it primarily affects the vascular system. Inadequately managed chronic hyperglycemia leads to progressive damage to blood vessel walls, resulting in microangiopathy (pathological changes in small blood ...

SpotlightChina Tests Building Moon Base With Lunar Soil Bricks

This is Beirut 2024-11-15 12:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

China Space program Moon

China is expected to push forward in its quest to build the first lunar base on Friday, launching an in-space experiment to test whether the station's bricks could be made from the Moon's own soil. Brick samples will blast off aboard a cargo rocket heading for China's Tiangong space station, part of Beijing's mission to put humans on the Moon by ...

Launch of National Immunization Campaign to Protect Children Amid Crisis

This Is Beirut 2024-11-14 13:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

In a major initiative to protect children from infectious diseases, the Ministry of Public Health in Lebanon launched a nationwide vaccination campaign on Thursday targeting polio, measles, rubella and varicella. Supported by UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Lebanese Association of Pediatricians, the campaign took place at the ...

Gasping for Air: Respiratory Issues Soar Amid Relentless Beirut Raids

Vanessa Kallas 2024-11-14 10:35 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

Lebanon Generator WHO Pollution Air Electricity

Since September, Israeli raids have targeted Lebanese territory almost daily, leaving behind a dense cloud of smoke for people to inhale. Combined with existing pollution from Lebanon’s overreliance on generators, the smoke is slowly endangering the health of the Lebanese population. Breathless in Beirut Manal lives in Ain El Remmaneh, a ...

UK Faces Avian Flu Outbreak as H5N5 Strain Spreads

This is Beirut 2024-11-06 19:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Virus Flu Health UK

In northern England, Yorkshire is now facing an avian flu outbreak following the detection of the H5N5 strain in poultry, marking the first cases recorded in farming since the beginning of the autumn season, the UK government announced on Tuesday. The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) confirmed that all poultry at the farm ...

Spotlight Climate Change: “The Wasted Time Has Been Paid in Lives”

Alain E. Andrea 2024-11-04 23:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Climate change Health

The 2024 Lancet Countdown report on health and climate change reveals that global warming poses an increasingly significant threat to public health. Compiled annually by researchers from various universities and UN agencies, the study highlights the multiple dangers facing the global population. “Data in this year’s report show that people all ...

ExplainerPolio: The Aborted Eradication of a Preventable Disease

Alain E. Andrea 2024-10-25 15:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Health Polio

Poliomyelitis, or polio, is a viral disease caused by the poliovirus, which invades the nervous system and spreads primarily through contaminated water or food. Highly contagious, it affects mainly unvaccinated children under five, with symptoms ranging from mild fevers to irreversible paralysis and death. Despite extensive global efforts, polio ...